CMAP/TAP FY 2016-2020 CMAQ PROJECT APPLICATION BICYCLE FACILITY I. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION Project Sponsor Contact Information – Name, Title, Agency, Address, Chicago Department of Transportation Phone, e-mail (e-mail required) Primary: Other Agencies Participating in Project Chicago Park District Keith Privett, Coordinating Planner, CDOT 30 N. LaSalle St., Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60602 312/744-1981 [email protected] ☐ TIP ID for Existing Project New Project ☒ Existing CMAQ/TAP Project Secondary: ☐ 01-06-0002 Add CMAQ/TAP to Existing Project Tanera Adams, Civil Engineer IV, CDOT 30 N. LaSalle St., Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60602 312/742-2590 [email protected] • Projects not readily identified by location must provide a title on the last line of this section II. PROJECT LOCATION • Attach a map sufficient to accurately locate this project in a GIS system Name of Street or Facility to be Improved Marked Route # 43rd Street Access Bridge to the Lakefront Trail Project Limits: North/West Reference Point/Cross St/Intersection Marked Route # Municipality & County 43rd Street Chicago / Cook Project Limits: South/East Reference Point/Cross St/Intersection Marked Route # Municipality & County Lake Shore Drive US 41 Chicago / Cook Other Project Location Information or Project Title III. PROJECT FINANCING AND CMAQ FUNDING REQUEST Please review the instructions. Starting (New) Other Federal Funds Federal Fiscal CMAQ/TAP Including prior CMAQ/TAP awards Year* Total Phase Costs Funds Requested Fund Type Amount Engineering Phase 1 2007 $ 705,000 $ CMAQ $ 564,000 Engineering Phase 2 2012 $ 1,590,000 $ CMAQ/STP $ 1,272,000 Right-Of-Way Acquisition 2012 $ 600,000 $ $ Construction (Including $ Construction Engineering) 2016 $ 21,650,000 $ 17,320,000 Engineering (For $ $ $ Implementation Projects) Implementation $ $ $ Alternatives Analysis $ $ $ *Phase must be accomplished within 3 years $ 25,545 $ 17,320 Total Project Costs *For TAP funds, cost increases beyond the initial programmed amounts will be the responsibility of sponsors. Source Of Local Matching Funds ILL, TBD-LOC If Soft Matching Funds Are Intended To Be Used, Please Contact CMAP Staff. Have The Matching Funds Been Secured? (Provide Details): Not yet for requested scope CMAP/TAP FY 2016-2020 CMAQ PROJECT APPLICATION BICYCLE FACILITY – PAGE 2 IV. PROJECT EMISSIONS BENEFIT DATA Indicate the current status of the bicycle environment where the proposed facility will be constructed. Are bike lanes present? If so, give width. This project creates bicycle access at 43rd Street to the Lakefront Trail to cross over Lake Shore Drive, two CN railway tracks and four Metra Electric tracks. It would replace a pedestrian-only bridge that does not provide proper access for cyclists, people with disabilities, skaters, and parents with strollers and is also beyond its useful life, substandard and in poor condition. The Lakefront Trail is an 18.5-mile, multi-use trail that extends from Ardmore Avenue on the North Side to 71st Street on the South Side, passing through Downtown Chicago along the way. Bike lanes extend the corridor 1 mile north to Loyola University and 3.2 miles south along South Shore Drive and South Lake Shore Drive to a 1.2-mile signed route on Ewing to the Burnham Greenway. This segment of the Lakefront Trail and the south extensions are included in the Grant Illinois Trail and the recently designated Illinois segment of US Bike Route 36. Bicycle users can also connect to neighborhood bike lanes/routes nearby the bridge, including Drexel Boulevard, Oakwood Boulevard, 47th Street, Woodlawn Avenue, and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Indicate the connectivity of bikeways resulting from the project: ☐ Project fills a gap between existing bikeways ☒ Project intersects an existing bikeway ☐ Project extends an existing bikeway ☐ Project is a new isolated bikeway segment Describe how the proposed bicycle facility integrates with transit service. Bicycle users can connect to CTA Route 43 (43rd Street), which has a bus stop less than 0.25 miles away from the 43rd Street Bike/Ped Bridge. The nearest CTA train station is the 43rd Green Line Station, which is about 1 mile away from the bike/ped bridge. Other CTA routes that bicycle users can connect to include Route 3 (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), Route 4 (Cottage Grove Avenue), Route 39 (Pershing Road), and Route 47 (47th Street). Provide the following for the road(s) of the facility or adjoining to the off-road facility 43rd Street: Traffic volumes (AADT): ___7000________, # of Thru Lanes: ____2 (1 each direction)____, Lane Width: _21 feet (including parking lane)__, Width of Outside Paved Shoulder: ___n/a____, Speed Limit: __ 30 mph______, % of Heavy Vehicles: ___n/a_______, Pavement Condition: 74 (pavement condition index), % of On-street Parking Occupied: __50%___. Lake Shore Drive: Traffic volumes (AADT): _____94900_______, # of Thru Lanes: ____8 (4 each direction)____, Lane Width: ____10 feet ___, Width of Outside Paved Shoulder: ___1.5 feet_____, Speed Limit: ___40/45 mph____, % of Heavy Vehicles: ___n/a________, Pavement Condition: 88 (pavement condition index), % of On-street Parking Occupied: __n/a____ Is the project identified in an approved or adopted plan: ☒ Yes ☐ No This bridge is included in the in the “very high” priority group of the City’s 2003 South Lakefront Access Study (see attachment), which explored improvements for cyclists, pedestrians, and people with disabilities to reach open space along Lake Michigan from Soldier Field to the Illinois-Indiana border. It is the highest ranking project in the plan’s priority calculations that has yet to be constructed. The plan – and this project – support the objective from Chicago’s Lakefront Protection Ordinance to provide public lakefront access at quarter-mile intervals, something currently not consistently provided to South Side residents. The Lakefront Trail is named in many plans. In the 2009 Update of the Northeast Illinois Regional Trails and Greenways Plan, it a component of the Primary Regional Trail System. Improvements to the Lakefront Trail and trail access are also a “First Group” recommendation of the Chicago Trails Plan – detailed on pages 142-150 (attached) – to improve the Lakefront Trail and is also part of the plan’s proposed Chicago Trails Loop, a citywide circuit of trails. In Chicago’s Bike 2015 Plan, strategy 4.4 of the Bikeway Network chapter (p. 11) is: “Improve access to the Lakefront Trail and other popular trails.” Objective Two (pp. 9-10) in the same chapter is: “Establish new trails, improve existing trails and improve access to trails.” Specifically, it follows strategy 2.1: “Construct grade-separated connections at appropriate locations to connect trails and provide safe crossings of busy roadways” and few Chicago roadways are busier than Lake Shore Drive. V. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Is Right-Of-Way Acquisition required for this project? ☒ Yes ☐ No If so, has it been acquired? ☐ Yes ☒ No ☐ N.A. ☐ Not Begun ☐ Agreement executed by Central Office ☐ Engineering Underway ☐ Submitted for review ☐ Responding to review comments Preliminary Design Status: ☐ Agreement sent to District 1for signatures ☒ Design approval granted Date approval is anticipated or was granted: ____4/3/2013____________ Estimated Completion (Construction) Year: ____2018_____________ VI. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Please describe improvements, including how the project integrates in to the area with regard to different trip attractors. CDOT seeks to build a safe and accessible bicycle and pedestrian bridge at 43rd Street that will cross over Lake Shore Drive, two CN railway tracks and four Metra Electric tracks to connect Bronzeville to Chicago’s Lakefront Trail. The bridge will replace an existing pedestrian-only bridge built in 1938 and 1954 that is beyond its useful life and in need of extensive repairs; is inaccessible to bicyclists and persons with disabilities; and is barely useable by pedestrians due to a narrow deck, deficient stairs and railings that are lower than current AASHTO requirements and lack restricted spacing per OSHA standards. (A 2009 Bridge Condition Report is available upon request.) A new bridge will improve travel for cyclists for both work and recreation north to Burnham Park, Museum Campus, and downtown Chicago and south to Jackson Park and the Museum of Science and Industry (both approximately 2 miles from the bridge). Among those who will enjoy the benefits are transit riders alighting the CTA’s 43rd Street bus route at its eastern terminal, residents of the Vivian Gordon Apartments, a CHA Senior Housing apartment high-rise immediately to the north; and students at nearby Jackie R. Robinson Elementary School. Inland, popular destinations in the area include King High School, grade schools, churches, Kennicott Park Fieldhouse, new housing developments, and historic Drexel Blvd. The bridge uses an innovative double-curved arch mono-truss structure to form a large, graceful S-curve that echoes the curves of the walkways in Burnham Park. As the bridge crosses over the railroad tracks and Lake Shore Drive, a reverse horizontal curve will provide expanded panoramic views of the park, Lake Michigan, and the Chicago skyline for bicyclists and pedestrians crossing the bridge. The design derives from a winning entry in the “Bridging the Drive” Design Competition, exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The bridge will be 20’ wide across the decks and 16’ wide on access ramps (6’ lanes each way with 2’ shoulders). Including all ramps, the 43rd Street Bridge will run 1,425 feet. Railings will follow current AASHTO bicycle and pedestrian facility guidelines with a 4’-6” height and rub rail set at 3’-6”. The bridge will maintain minimum clearances of 23’-6” over the CN railroad tracks, 22’-1” over the Metra Electric and NICTD tracks, 3’ over Metra and NICTD catenary support cables, 17’- 3” over Lake Shore Drive, 20’ away from the edge of Lake Shore Drive, and (per AREMA standards) 25’ away from the centerline of the nearest railroad track and 7’ away from the nearest rail maintenance road.